Jeweled Toad

Jeweled Toad
Jeweled Toad
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
Species: B. gemmifer
Binomial name
Bufo gemmifer
Taylor, 1940
Synonyms

Cranopsis gemmifer

The Jeweled Toad or Sapo Joya (Bufo gemmifer) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Source

  • Frost, Darrel; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, JuliÁN; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, CÉLIO F.B.; De SÁ, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan et al. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090. 
  • Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C, Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.
  • Santos-Barrera, G. & Flores-Villela, O. 2004. Bufo gemmifer. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.